China's Chip-Gas Tariff Lands as Life Corp Pays Up for Albis

Daiwa, Nomura and Mizuho will underwrite a Kansai Electric transition bond earmarked for nuclear-restart safety work, hydrogen co-firing research and grid renewal, but the utility still has not disclosed how large the issue will be.

A real-estate leasing company founded by AS ONE Corporation's former representative director has tendered 2.5 million shares into the company's own buyback, but settlement doesn't start until October, so the reported 12.63% joint stake it holds with a family-member director stays unchanged for now.

FUJIFILM is selling its Chinese printing-plate subsidiary and ceding sales rights outside Japan, the US, Canada and Mexico to Huangshan Jinruitai Technology, shrinking a unit that made up less than 1% of group revenue while it weighs a broader spin-off of the segment.

Daiwa Motor Transportation is placing ¥999.8mn of new shares with homebuilder Daiwa House Industry, which becomes its largest shareholder at 9.76% while agreeing to redevelop the taxi firm's Ginza land under a lease structure that keeps construction costs off its books.

Miraial's interim profit rose 52% on AI-linked semiconductor demand for its plastic components, but a debt-funded marine-instrument acquisition added ¥826.7mn of goodwill and a ¥1.9bn covenanted loan, pulling its equity ratio down to 71.3% from 85.7%.

Sharing Technology (TSE Growth: 3989) confirmed a Nikkei report that it is reviewing going private, and said its board has already resolved to recommend a future tender offer, before naming a bidder, price or timetable.

ASICS Corporation's board capped a new buyback at ¥70bn and 20 million shares (2.82% of the register) running through March 2027, while separately cancelling 25 million treasury shares this month to head off dilution concerns.

Nichirin's first-half revenue rose 18.3% to ¥42.3bn, but its North America segment swung to a ¥250mn operating loss as US tariffs added a separate ¥400mn cost in the profit bridge; the company still held its full-year guidance unchanged.

A roughly ¥500mn writedown on an unlisted stake halved Besterra's interim net profit even as operating profit more than doubled, and the demolition contractor still cannot quantify the cost of an April crane accident that killed four people at a Kawasaki steel mill.

Link and Motivation will absorb chatbot maker SELF on October 1 using only treasury shares and a shareholder-vote-free simplified exchange, even though SELF's net assets are still slightly negative.

Redasemtid, StemRIM's HMGB1-peptide drug licensed to Shionogi, missed its primary endpoint in a global stroke trial's no-reperfusion cohort, while a small four-patient trial in the rare skin disease dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa hit its mark with three ulcer closures; Shionogi now decides the stroke program's future.

ANYCOLOR grew Nijisanji-driven revenue 5.4% in the quarter to July, but a heavier events calendar pushed costs up and operating profit fell 8.8% while the margin dropped six points, and the company still expects profit to fall for the full year while cutting its dividend to ¥62 from ¥75.

Skyfall priced its IPO at ¥1,500, the top of its range, after bookbuilding demand clustered at the ceiling; the reward-advertising platform is directing most of the roughly ¥1.51bn raised toward hiring and marketing in the US and Europe, with trading set to start September 17.

Meiji Holdings' new Shanghai dairy-sales subsidiary, capitalized above 650 million yuan and wholly owned indirectly, crossed the size threshold that forces disclosure under Japan's securities law.

pluszero says its miraio phone-answering AI is live at four companies, including a securities brokerage, with seven more still in preparation, as nine-month operating profit rose 29% to ¥509mn.

Quantum Solutions never signed a contract or paid a yen to Rubin Tech Inc. for its planned GPU servers; it has now committed $60.99mn to an unnamed Kanto vendor to nearly quadruple its server count for an Osaka AI data center, funded partly by a $2.6mn loan from a Hong Kong shareholder that will not disclose its own finances.

FLIGHT SOLUTIONS says a repeat customer's new order for its Incredist Trinity Mini is worth at least 10% of last year's revenue; the exact price is confidential under an agreement with the buyer, and the company says the deal is already baked into its existing guidance.

ispace's board approved a ¥3bn loan from Shizuoka Bank for mission-development working capital, unsecured and on a three-year bullet repayment, but the loan requires the company to keep at least ¥3bn in cash and positive net assets at every fiscal year-end.

Ending a duplicate-warehouse cost overlap helped Beauty Garage nearly double quarterly operating profit to ¥475.8mn, but its online store still can't take credit cards at checkout seven months after a suspected data leak, with a fresh outside investigation launched in August yet to find a cause.